Copacabana
Travel Blogs from Copacabana, Bolivia
Enter Bolivia!
... the bolivean border....jumped off the bus and picked up our exit stamps. We then needed to walk across a bridge into bolivia get ourselves stamped in and back onto the bus....this was completed without any hitches! Yey! Upon our arrival ...
Copacabana all inclusive style.
... . And people who visit Bolivia, typically don't know that it is an easy few hours drive there from La Paz (including me). I just found out in fact, but now I am in Copacabana, and decide to give it all a miss. Maybe next time, as now I am off to ...
The Altitude Diaries...
... football game. But this is no ordinary football game. This is a Bolivian women's game. 5-a-side at the Copacabana Coliseum. All of the women are wearing their Bowler Hats. And their 3 traditional skirts that they wear ...
No showgirls in this Copacabana (not even Lola!)
... the night before busing it south for another few hours. Our destination was just on the other side of the Peru/Bolivia border, the town of Copacabana. This is the original Copacabana; it held the name long before the beach in Rio, and was definitely ...
Isla del Sol in Copacabana, Bolivia
... the second chapter in my South American Adventures: Bolivia and Beyond (I hope you like it) My trip from Puno, Peru to Copacabana, Bolivia was excruciatingly mild and safe. Joao Carlos and I took a van packed full of people to the edge of the ...
Isla del Sol
... de Tiquina, and drive on to Copacabana. There are expansive views of the blue sparkling lake and the surrounding terraced countryside. Copacabana looks colourful and welcoming little town from high up in the hills. The bus stops in Plaza Sucre and I can ...
Bolivia...the bargain basement of South America
... islands the town looked like a serious dump and we were glad to catch the next, much warmer bus, around the Lake to Copacabana, Bolivia. Even after what seemed like a hundred hours on the bus and a sleepless night, Lake Titicaca was spectacular. The ...
We got him, boys!!!!
NEWS EXCLUSIVE BIN IN BOLIVIA WOULD you Adam and eve it! Today while we were walking through Copacabana town centre we took this amazing snap of what can only be the FBI's number 1 most wanted criminal, sitting in a Bolivian town ...
Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz
... work. Bolivia We walk over a surprisingly calm border crossing, get our Bolivian entry stamp, and get a taxi to Copacabana, a small Bolivian fishing village on the edge of Lake Titicaca. The rain which has been threatening all afternoon ...
Bus Ride to La Paz!
BEFORE YOU READ ON....... me and Zoe are 100% safe and happy.... no cuts no bruises just some slightly shaken nerves. I will explain: So we jumped on our bus heading Copacobana -> La Paz, and this one time...the only time so far we decided to ...
Crisis in Copacabana
... are not Americans as the ‘reciprocal’ visa fees to enter each country in South America are over a $100 a time. Copacabana is nestled between two hills on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is the highest and largest navigable ...
Bolivian Bliss
... ) and from advice we had decided to skip the Peruvian side and head for the Bolivian side accessed through the small town of Copacabana (yep the same as the one in Brasil with less beautiful beach and scantily clad women around). The town was slow paced ...
At the Copa...
... built on a hill overlooking the lake. The next day we took a tour bus across the border to the little Bolivian village of Copacabana (not to be confused with the Brazilian beach town of the same name...) We found Copacabana to be even nicer than Puno ...
Copacabana
We organised the bus to Copacabana through the Wild Rover Hostel as thatīs where the Donegal gang booked their seats. The bus collected us at our Hostel early in the morning. The bus to Copacabana took three hours and itīs a really nice journey - ...
Copacabana - Haunted By Barry
After crossing the Strait of Tiquina in a little boat, we reboarded our bus and wound our way down to Copacabana with lyrics from Barry Manilow buzzing round both our brains! We were dropped off at the lovely town square, complete with ornate, Moorish ...
Tihuanaco ruins
... and the precision with which the tihuanacos had carved the stone to fit perfectly together was amazing (to carve they used llama skin with clay on it in a sawing motion). Tomorrow I head up to Copacabana on lake Titicaca which Iīve heard is really ...
Her name wasn't Lola and she wasn't a showgirl
... it was off to find the nearest chicken shack, before crashing into bed for the early bus across the border to Bolivia and the small fishing town of Copacabana. Here we had the option of going to more islands on the Lake, but I couldn't be bothered - even ...
The magical blue colour of Lago Titicaca
... Sol and Isla de la Luna (sun and moon island). A half full tourist bus took four hours and one water crossing to reach Copacabana. The crossing is very primitive and you wonder how those "boats" donīt sink or the bus doesnīt fall over into the water ...
Worship The Sun
... and suggestions for me, so it was sad to see him go as he was walking to the south side of the island to return to Copacabana that day, visiting a few more hostels on the way of course. Not many people were staying and the boat had been full of day ...
I Can Swim Faster Than This
Our second day in Copacabana saw us up early boarding a boat for Isle de Sol (Island of the Sun). The sneaky tour lady told us there was only one boat going that day so we booked and paid to ensure a place. In actual fact there were lots of boats all ...
Sunburnt on Isla del Sol
... appeared, they were cold and very disappointing, esp. considering the price. So beware, fellow travellers, avoid Kala Uta in Copacabana! On Thursday morning we hopped aboard a bus to Copacabana. About an hour into the journey, we reached the narrowest ...
The Original Copacabana
... , do as the South Americans!!! The hostel was quite nice, and we got a private room with a gorgeous view over Copacabana Beach (Bolivia!) and Lake Titikaka. We dined well, again, for next to nothing and had a lovely stroll around the pretty town, up ...
A long walk along the Island of the Sun
... to the south of the island in good time for the ferry, butt we were a bit shattered to say the least. On the ferry back to Copacabana, we stopped off at some 'fake' reed islands, which were a bit of a tourist trap - we didn't even get off the boat. ...
Into Bolivia!
... I have no pictures and no information...! We got up early again and headed for the bus station to go to Copacabana in Bolivia, and bumped into most of the people we met in Cusco... which worked out brilliantly, because once we got through ...
Beautiful Lake Titikaka
... meter in his head was red lining. 3 hours later, and to his credit , we finally emerged on the road around Lake Titicaca to Copacabana. This had been a very stressful morning for all of us. Lynn had stopped at one stage and put her foot in a pothole and ...
Isla del Sol
Well, the worst thing was that I had Barry Manilow going around in my head the whole time we were there ("her name was Lola..."). The best thing was that we got so lucky with our hotel, as we were approached by these guys as we got off the bus who ...
Simon Bolivars land
... arrive in Puno at 5am, and wait on the bus for an hour for the terminal to open, and await our connecting bus to Copacabana, Bolivia, whilst some guy gives me the hard sell on his hotel and further bus tickets - he gets nowhere. The Copacabana bus is ...
Isla del Sol and Copacabana, Lake Titicaca
From La Paz I headed to Lake Titicaca on the border or Peru and Bolivia. From the town of Copacabana I caught a boat to the Isla del Sol. The island is really beautiful, and reminded me a bit of Santorini in Greece, but more peaceful. It is the centre of ...

